2009 LECTURES
and *MINI-EXHIBITS
Lectures are held at 8 p.m. at the De Young
Museum in Golden Gate Park unless otherwise
noted
All lectures are free to members and $15 to
non-members
January 13 Historic American
Landscapes: Creating a Sense of Time and Place
John Forti, Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth, NH
* Landscape images
February
10 Streamlining: The American Contribution to
Modernism
Jeffrey L. Meikle, University of Texas at Austin
* Deco to mid-century objects and
images
March
10 Charles Rohlfs,
the Aesthetic Movement, and the Roots of His Artistic
Furniture
Sarah N. Falen, Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, WI
* Arts and crafts and aesthetic movement
objects
April
14 The
Whalers' Curious Art of Scrimshaw
Stuart M. Frank, New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA
* Scrimshaw and nautical objects and
images
May
12
Cutthroat Competition for Peaceable Kingdoms:
Connoisseurship in
the Marketplace for Edward Hicks
Susan D.Kleckner, University City, MO
* Animal images and
objects
June
9
The Shipcarvers' Art: Wooden Sculpture in 19th Century America
Ralph Sessions, DC Moore Gallery, New York
City
* Folk art objects and
images
July
14
George G. Wright and Philadelphia's Federal Cabinetmakers, 1795 -
1815
Clark Pearce, Essex, MA
* Classical images and
objects
Sunday, August 16, LEGION OF HONOR,
11:30 AM
Michael Weller Silver Seminar: American Flatware
**
D.
Albert Soeffing, Philadelphia, PA and William P. Hood, Jr., Dothan,
AL
* Flatware and serving pieces
Unexpected
Servings: Colonial and Federal Flatware
D.
Albert Soeffing
A
Cornucopia of Choices: American Patterned Flatware, 1842 -
1876 D. Albert
Soeffing
American Nineteenth-Century
Flatware: Jewelry of the Table William P.
Hood Jr., M.D.
September 8 'They took to their
tools like ducks to water:' The Cincinatti Women Woodcarvers
of the Aesthetic
Movement
Jennifer Howe, Cincinnati, OH
* Hand-carved objects and
furniture
October 27± America's First
Face: The Progress of Portrait Miniatures in the New
Republic
Elle
Shushan, Philadelphia,
PA
* Miniature portraiture and
objects
November 10 Ornamented Furniture
of the Inland South, 1775 -
1850
Sumpter
T. Priddy III, Alexandria,
VA
* Angels and
putti
December
8 Harbor and Home: Furniture of Coastal New
England, 1725 -
1825
Brock
Jobe, Winterthur Museum, Wilmington,
DE
* Seascapes
**This Sunday
seminar consists of three lectures, with a break for lunch, on
flatware used in America from the eighteenth century through the
early twentieth century.
It is free with museum admission to ADAF members and the general
public. For more information, see the ADAF newsletter or call
415-249 9234 at the beginning of
August.
± fourth Tuesday
